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Writing Workshops
- - Each summer, the Collegeville Institute opens its doors to pastors, ministers, lay leaders, and other thinkers and writers for week-long, intensive writing workshops geared toward various levels of writing skill, genre and interest.
    
    Each fall, the Collegeville Institute partners with other institutes, seminaries, or churches to coordinate regional off-site workshops.
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  - Writing Spirit, Writing Faith: A Week with Mary Potter
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- - The Communities of Calling Initiative invites congregations into a 5-year project on vocation.
    
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Fellows Program
- Bringing together an ecumenical group of gifted Minnesota faith leaders, the Collegeville Institute Fellows Program focuses on leadership development with the goal of strengthening religious leaders’ sense of themselves as civic leaders.
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Faith and Writing
- Good writing is essential to powerful theological education within congregations. In this section we highlight book reviews, provide resources for good writing, feature the writing of our program participants, and more.
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Living Your Discipleship: Related Videos

A Practical Guide to Following Christ in Daily Life

Living Your Discipleship: Seven Ways to Express Your Deepest Calling (23^rd Publications, 2015) explores seven features of Christian discipleship: follower, worshiper, witness, neighbor, forgiver, prophet, and steward.

See how each of these Lives Explored videos connect with the seven features of discipleship. (Each video can be viewed full-screen by clicking in the lower-right hand corner.)

Follower

Angela searches for God’s road signs as she follows her calling to creativity, from professional work to parenting.

Worshiper

Sherice speaks about praising God with prayer and song both in worship at church and in her workplace.

Witness

Mary Margaret and Ken share their witness of keeping faith throughout their journey through Alzheimer’s in order to help others who face this difficult diagnosis.

Neighbor

Jane remembers God’s promise to send her the people she needs as she considers a new calling to serve neighbors outside her comfort zone.

Forgiver

Joyce describes her journey to forgiveness in moving beyond negative voices from her past and embracing the confidence of a new calling.

Prophet

Adam speaks about his passion for helping teens create powerful, prophetic plays about provocative social issues.

Steward

Ken asks questions about stewardship related to his calling as a woodworker, seeking to offer his gifts in service to others.